ROLL up, roll up as top-selling comedian Jason Byrne turns ringmaster and brings his new stand-up show Cirque du Byrne to Coventry.

He’s appeared on TV on Dave’s One Night Stand, Live At The Apollo on BBC 1 and Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford on ITV and will be offering an anarchy packed show of acrobatic proportions at Warwick Arts Centre tomorrow.

The Irish comedian has been a smash on the stand-up circuit for years and his tours are consistently sold-out.

His original brand of high-energy comedy and shows have also attracted accolades including the Chortle Award for Best Headliner 2007, a Perrier Newcomer Award Nomination in 1998 and a Perrier Award Nomination in 2001.

He says: “I think once you are working outside your country as a comic and until you are very well known then you’re an Irish comic or when the English come to Ireland they’re English comics.

“Graham Norton is no longer an Irish comic, he’s Graham Norton, no more then Jack Dee is now Jack Dee in Ireland.

“My material doesn’t have a heavy Irish string through it, that’s why I do well in other countries.

“And in the UK it doesn’t matter where you’re from as long as you’re funny.”

And his secret for keeping up with new material? “I get a load of paper, write jokes on them, I then dip them in water, sit across from a wall and throw the paper at the wall. Whatever sticks to the wall is the stuff I use that night.”

Jason insists he is not ambitious, but says he likes to try new things all the time and gets bored easily. “Success to me is always doing something new and different,” he points out.

He has described his family life in detail in past shows, but says it is all totally fictional. “When people meet my real wife they are very surprised to meet a gentle, tall, beautiful woman,” he grins.

His children make him laugh – “they’re like a walking little sitcom” – but Jason says he does not feel the need to be funny all the time himself.

“I have a good laugh with my mates, but it’s not me with a torch shone in my face doing all the talking, they’re just as funny as me and way more evil.”

But there is one person Jason would like to impress with his stand-up shows...God.

“So when I arrive in Heaven I just want him to turn to me about my life, pat me on the back, and say, ‘Good gig Jason, good gig’.”